Set up git

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Jintram edited this page Jun 22, 2011 · 3 revisions

This article will tell you how to install Git on an Ubuntu or Fedora system and will explain the necessary first step to get connected to the online code repository at github. The contents of this text are also contained in the file DEVELOPMENT in the main directory of the repository.

Installation and configuration

$ sudo apt-get install git (Ubuntu) or $ sudo yum install git (Fedora)
$ git config --global user.name <your_name> (Settings are stored in $HOME/.gitconfig.)
$ git config --global user.email <your_email_address>

Cloning the gfrd repository

$ git clone git://github.com/gfrd/egfrd.git (Creates a branch master which tracks origin/master, the latest stable release version of gfrd. Don’t modify this branch except with git pull after a new version has been released.)

Tracking development

$ git branch common-develop origin/develop (Creates a branch common-develop which tracks origin/develop, the latest development version of gfrd. Don’t modify this branch except with git pull, but pull often.)